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[1]: https://medium.com/thisiscala/the-duct-tape-holding-the-inte...
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The FBI and analogous TLAs do this all the time. And generally, there's no recourse. In many cases, sites have resorted to distributing their IP addresses.
Personally I’d rather deal with the FBI accidentally seizing a domain than some foreign entity.
They control various seized assets seemingly unrelated to their publicly stated mission, like libertyreserve.com. Shadowserver used to host the seizure page for liberty reserve too.
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Thank you for this comment. I have not consulted a lawyer. I have not suffered any monetary loss due to this yet. I use this domain name only to run a small personal blog (the one linked to in this post) and an Exim4 MTA. The fact that the MTA became unreachable via the domain name did mean that some emails sent to it must have bounced back. The primary loss I suffered was in terms of time. In fact, I appreciate the…
Yes, I get that the Shadowserver Foundation does good work. And that they acted quickly, after being pointed to your tweet. However, if your tweet hadn't gotten traction, and if Namecheap hadn't been proactive, you'd likely have never gotten the domain back. I mean, you had the Namecheap CEO on the case! And for a business losing a domain like that, it'd probably be fatal. I get that many think that Americans are hug…
That point of view is rather unfortunate. Why does it have to be about damages? GP even ends his comment on a very postitive note about things that would help. Not every mistake needs to be punished. It was a false positive, and it was heartening to see that all the parties acted fast enough. Why not just move on instead of outraging over hypothetical concerns?
EDIT: I have no idea how to quote parent comments here.
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I don't see any mention of a court; the TLD manager (NIXI) probably took the initiative based on said erroneous information.
NIXI is subject to the jusrisdiction of CERT-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team - https://cert-in.org.in/ ), which in turn was one of the participants of the Avalanche takedown program. A legal request originating from Germany would have been approved by CERT-IN and NIXI would have had to comply. https://www.cyberswachhtakendra.gov.in/alerts/avalanche.html
Do I go with a @gmail.com or other corporate address? Then I risk losing my email if my account is suspended.
Do I go with a domain I own? Then I risk losing it if something like this happens.
Either way is serious because email is effectively a master key into all my accounts.
I'm honestly not sure what's best.
A couple of years ago we lost our domain [1] due to a registrar (that we were not a customer of) erroneously issuing a suspension. The amount of honor system involved in the whole process, particularly in ccTLDs without as much oversight, was really surprising. [1]: https://medium.com/thisiscala/the-duct-tape-holding-the-inte...
> My website was missing. In fact, the domain name resolved to an IPv4 address I was unfamiliar with. Do you guys know this stuff? If my domain started resolving to a new IP address, that would be just as unfamiliar to me, as the current address. Should I ping my domain and write the results down?
For a larger one, the netblock(s), ASNs, or hosting. provider / region.
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This is something that can absolutely be decentralized. Problems aside namecoin shows that it can be done. The entire domain name system needs to be overhauled, central certificate authorities need to be avoided. The internet in general is infrastructure, and protocols that are increasingly controlled by governments and organizations in bed with governments.
That also has its downsides though. For starters, it would no longer be possible to take down domains used for controlling botnets.